#usfed

“Can we give Karen Chen some appreciation? Her comeback was completely overshadowed by Gracie's and was (kinda) generally ignored or not talked about much. Like, good on her for coming back from an injury, going to Cornell, and having the skate of her life at 4CC!!! I see you Karen, I love you.”

“I always think it’s sad when a low-ranked skater has a really outstanding skate at Nationals and makes the podium, but nobody knows or cares because they don’t come from one of the four big feds.”

“Nowadays, unless they are A.) Team Tutberidze, B.) a Russian, C.) a Japanese, or D.) an American, no one talks about them! There are so many lovely skaters that I would love to hear more about, but I never hear about them unless they fit in one of those boxed-up categories.”

“I still wish they would take away the rights to literally everything from NBC. Their “sports gold” app is overpriced and barely works unless you are willing to cast from the website or your phone to your tv (and on my phone I can’t get anything to play so it has to be the website). They either block everything on youtube or get it taken down. Tara is as annoying as Nastia in the gymnastics world. I’m ready for that monopoly to be taken away from them, preferably ASAP.”

“It’s interesting how the timing of Jun’s underrotations getting called coincides with Jason finally starting to be consistent and starting to have clean skates. I guess TCC is at the mercy of the USFSA and KSU huh? And, giving what they went before with Yuna, why would the KSU support TCC???”

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